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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

John Donne

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
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Death Delicate Escape Wind
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Creature Glory God Man Pieces Reason World
O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.
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God Need Stand Suffering Thinking
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.
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Fear God Himself See
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
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Absence Greatness Love Presence
I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
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Death God Live Myself See
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
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Despair Heaven Hell Joy
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
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Born Break Death Deep Man Ourselves Prison Spiritual
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
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Break Breathe Force God Heart Myself Rise Seek
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.
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Hands Let Go
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
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Count God Goodness Life Myself
I sing the progress of a deathless soul.
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Death Myself One Liner Progress Sing Soul
For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere.
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Control Love Oneself Room
All occasions invite His mercies, and all times are His seasons.
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Invitation Mercy Occasion Sesaon Time
We give each other a smile with a future in it.
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Each Other Future One Liner
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.
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Beautiful Desire Dreams Myself See
In heaven it is always autumn.
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Autumn Heaven Season
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Friendship Happiness One Liner Share
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
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Greatness Nature Pieces
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
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Affordable Comfortable God Himself Power Praise
As soon as there was two there was pride.
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Ego Number Pride
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
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Death Forever Past Short Sleep Wake Up
Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.
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Eyes Face Myself
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
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Palace Prison World
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Continent Man Piece
Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?
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Declaration Love
Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.
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Hell Solitude Threat

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